Advice From Angela Davis In The Aftermath Of The Election

      Whatever the original intent of the lecture Wednesday, much of the event was devoted to a discussion of the election.



      Davis then read from civil rights leader Anne Braden’s 1972              “Letter to Southern White Women”          :



      Following the lecture, Davis engaged in conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a rising star in African-American studies who teaches at Princeton     University. The majority of questions (submitted on note cards anonymously by audience members) were about what to do in the the face of a Trump     presidency. Davis didn’t have any easy answers. “Whatever we are already doing, we need to do more,” she said. “We need to accelerate our activism.”